Agreed with most of the above,
Rap just as most music has evolved it's just a pity it turnned into complete shit, I love Rap (real rap) and have had my own rap group, been on tour, gigged, recorded, and basically got to see first hand how, a song about the negitive influence gangs have on our children is over looked for something more americanized and meaningless with a lot of bass(I'm not saying american rap is meaningless). it seems we now have a industy full of idiots who give emos a good reason to dam on Rap/RnB/Hip-hop. thanks T.pain and co.
R.I.P RAP.